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Context
Song from Water, Gregory Porter's first record, recorded in Brooklyn in August 2009, produced and arranged by Kamau Kenyatta. The album, released by Motéma in 2010, is nominated for the Grammy for best jazz vocal album; Blue Note reissued it in 2022 with a remix of this track.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).